Dickey, Richard, Interview with (2007-08-06)

00:30 Born November 29, 1923, in Lancing, Michigan; 01:23 Family life – three family house; 02:20 Education – did not go to high school; 02:30 Knowledge of current events – Hitler, Japan and Pearl Harbor; 03:36 Drafted into Army; 03:56 Boot camp at Fort Benning, Georgia – five weeks paratrooper training; 04:38 Unit flown to Australia – more training; 05:55 Made five jumps into [Marianas] Islands; 08:28 Mission – kill and capture Japanese; 08:53 Wounded by hand grenade – knee cap; 09:23 First aid treatment only; 09:27 Japanese prisoners; 12:21 Second trip to [Marianas] Islands; 13:00 Military metals and airborne patch; 14:00 Japanese signed treaty; 17:00 Japanese prisoners sent to Australia; 17:40 Trip home; 18:05 Career after military; 19:10 Now lives seven miles outside of Campbell, Texas; 19:17 Hobbies and pets – six rescue dogs. Commentator interviews two daughters; 24:40 Daughters: Peggie Morgan and Teresal – two daughters out of seven children; 26:30 Remember rationing; 28:00 Daughters told story of when Mr. Dickey was kidnapped by biological father’s family and was gone from the age of two to the age of five or six; 31:00 General MacArthur; 31:43Home life; 34:20 Genealogy; 41:32 Neighbors in Campbell; 47:44 Killed snake on porch – copperhead; 53:00 Crawfish; 53:42 Fire ants.

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00:30 Born November 29, 1923, in Lancing, Michigan; 01:23 Family life – three family house; 02:20 Education – did not go to high school; 02:30 Knowledge of current events – Hitler, Japan and Pearl Harbor; 03:36 Drafted into Army; 03:56 Boot camp at Fort Benning, Georgia – five weeks paratrooper training; 04:38 Unit flown to Australia – more training; 05:55 Made five jumps into [Marianas] Islands; 08:28 Mission – kill and capture Japanese; 08:53 Wounded by hand grenade – knee cap; 09:23 First aid treatment only; 09:27 Japanese prisoners; 12:21 Second trip to [Marianas] Islands; 13:00 Military metals and airborne patch; 14:00 Japanese signed treaty; 17:00 Japanese prisoners sent to Australia; 17:40 Trip home; 18:05 Career after military; 19:10 Now lives seven miles outside of Campbell, Texas; 19:17 Hobbies and pets – six rescue dogs. Commentator interviews two daughters; 24:40 Daughters: Peggie Morgan and Teresal – two daughters out of seven children; 26:30 Remember rationing; 28:00 Daughters told story of when Mr. Dickey was kidnapped by biological father’s family and was gone from the age of two to the age of five or six; 31:00 General MacArthur; 31:43Home life; 34:20 Genealogy; 41:32 Neighbors in Campbell; 47:44 Killed snake on porch – copperhead; 53:00 Crawfish; 53:42 Fire ants.